Google AI Mode: Tread with caution, verify information carefully, and always check answers

Recently, I asked Google to help me plan my daughter’s birthday party by finding a park in Oakland, California, with picnic tables. The site generated a list of parks nearby, so I went to scout two of them out — only to find there were, in fact, no tables.

“I was just there,” I typed to Google. “I didn’t see wooden tables.”